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| National Crimebeat Awards 2008 - Winning Projects
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| National Crimebeat gets a New Man at the Helm
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| National Crimebeat Awards 2007 - Winning Projects
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| The Awards Ceremony for 2006 took place on 20th
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| The Awards Ceremony for 2005 took place on 21st
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| The Awards Ceremony for 2004 took place on 16th July
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| The Awards Ceremony for 2003 took place on 18th July
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| Crimebeat National Co-ordinators Meetings
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NATIONAL CRIMEBEAT AWARDS 2008
The winning projects for 2008 are:
Joint Winners
Reclaim - Moss-Side Manifesto (Greater Manchester)
Ferryhill Ladder Group - Knife Crime Project (Durham)
Joint Runners-Up
Skipton - Internet Safety Workshop (North
Yorkshire)
The Yard Project (Suffolk)
Highly Commended
Dreas's Divas - Woolston (Cheshire)
X - Factor (Cleveland)
Choices (Derbyshire)
Groombridge Youth Council (East Sussex)
Just Smile (Norfolk)
Staffordshire Graffiti Busters (Staffordshire)
Safer Roads - Safer Areas (Surrey)
Commended
Henbury Scrapheap Challenge (Bristol)
Drugs through the Arts Programme (Buckinghamshire)
Playground Pals (Clwyd)
Cowick Youth Project (Devon)
Staying Alive (Essex)
Watford Positive Futures Programme (Hertfordshire)
Social Behaviour Policy (West Sussex)
New Kid on the Block (West Yorkshire)
Caine Extended Salamander Course (Wiltshire)
Chairman's Certificate
Penzance Police ICE Mobile Phone Project (Cornwall)
The Prince's Trust - Team Programme (Dyfed)
Police Student Community Project (South Glamorgan)
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NATIONAL CRIMEBEAT GETS A NEW MAN AT
THE HELM
Retiring
Chairman of National Crimebeat John Richards OBE, DL
(left)
together with
Incoming
Chairman Nigel Burgess QPM, DL
(right)
Having
served as Chairman of National Crimebeat for some four years,
John Richards has passed over control to Nigel Burgess.
Nigel
served as a police officer in Sussex, Gloucestershire and, from
1997 to 2002, as Chief Constable of Cheshire.
In 1996 Nigel
Burgess was awarded the Queen's Police Medal for his services to
policing and in 2003 was made a Deputy Lieutenant for the County
of Cheshire. He is married to Elaine and has two daughters. His
interests include rowing, narrow boating, hill walking and
post-war classic cars.
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NATIONAL CRIMEBEAT AWARDS 2007
The
closing date for entries is 1st June 2007
to the National Crimebeat Coordinator at Cheshire Constabulary
HQ (click here for contact details).
Entries should be submitted by the High Sheriff in office 2006 -
2007.
Judging is set to be carried out during
the week of Monday 18th June 2007 and results to be announced
shortly afterwards.
The Awards Ceremony and celebrations, to
which the three winning teams will be invited, is planned for
Wednesday 26th September 2007 at The Royal National
Hotel, London.
The winning projects for 2007 are:
Overall Winners
BeSecure.net (Norfolk)
2nd Place
Easington Colliery Crime Busters (Durham)
3rd Place (Joint)
Environmental Youth Pests - Street Champions Project 2006 (West
Midlands Police)
Henbury & Brentry Activities Team Community Project (Bristol
BYCA)
Highly Commended
Anti-bullying at Bourne Community
College (West Sussex)
Respect Academy (Kent Peoples Trust)
Don't Delay. Secure your bike today (Cleveland)
Wiltshire & Swindon Crimebeat Re-image (Wiltshire Crimebeat)
Commended
What
Crime Means to Me (Derbyshire Crimebeat)
The Pen Y Crew (Clwyd)
Choysez (Northumberland)
Footprints Community Group 'Creative Cookery Project' (Essex
Community Foundation)
The Bike Rescue Project (North Yorkshire)
Rock Challenge - Drug Free High (Lincolnshire)
Let's Get a Life (Suffolk)
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NATIONAL CRIMEBEAT AWARDS 2006
The
judging panel met on the 19th June to decide this year's winners
and most notable projects. There was a exceptionally high
level of both quality and number of submissions made by former
High Sheriffs of Bailiwicks of England and Wales. This reflected
well on the work of The High Sheriff's Charities and helps to
promote the work young people undertake to improve the Quality
of Life in the neighbourhoods.
Summaries of each of the
winners together with pictures will follow over the coming
weeks.
Congratulations to the winning teams!
Overall Winners
Drink - Drive Poster: "Pub-licity" (Heartsease High School,
Norfolk)
2nd Place
The Sheerwater Youth Cafe (The Sheerwater Youth Cafe, Surrey)
3rd Place
Victims of Domestic Violence (DISC Young Carers, Durham)
Your Voice Matters (Manhood Community College, West Sussex)
Highly Commended
Bristol: Super
Psychics Save the Park (FroGS)
North Yorkshire: The Three Tequilas (North Yorks County Council)
Cleveland: Carlin Kids Against Crime (East Cleveland & Guisborough
YIP)
Leicestershire: TJ's Youth Cafe (Leicester Crimebeat)
Staffordshire: YAK Conference on Road Safety (Partners Assuring a
Safer Staffordshire [PASS])
Commended
Wiltshire: Jump Mentoring
(Swindon Youth Offending Team)
West Glamorgan: Start Thinking Stop Drinking (Cymer Afan
Comprehensive School)
Somerset: Bullying (Crispin School, Street)
Shropshire: Fitness and Football (The Community Foundation for
Shropshire & Telford)
Mid-Glamorgan: Cynon Valley Youth Crime Prevention Panel (Cynon
Valley YCP Panel)
Merseyside: Pez Walker (Pez Walker Project Team)
Kent: "The Gaff" Wilmington, Kent (Kent People's Trust)
Hertfordshire: "Go Get It" (Watford YMCA)
Gwynedd: "Un yr Ormod" / "One Too Many" (Ysgol Dyffryn Nantlle)
Essex: Mannersway Allotment Project (Southend Y.O.S)
Devon: Peer Education Poster Project (Bideford Community College)
Derbyshire: ASBO Credit Card (Tibshelf Community School)
Cornwall: Restormel Anti-Graffiti Project (Restormel Anti-Graffiti
Project Team)
Clwyd: Be Careful Out There (Alun High School, Mold)
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NATIONAL CRIMEBEAT AWARDS 2005
This
year’s National Crimebeat Awards were held on 21st September
at the Royal National Hotel London.
Click here to
open the 2005 Awards brochure (712Kb - allow a few minutes to
open).
Prizes of £1,000 for first, £750 for second, £500 for third.
Congratulations to the winning teams!
Overall Winners
Six Saint Circa Holt Youth Club (Leicestershire & Rutland
Crimebeat)
The young people involved in this project are from the Leicestershire villages of Medbourne & Great Easton.
At the end of 2003 a small fire was started deliberately in a building near to Great Easton Village Hall.
Young people in the area felt that other members of the community were accusing them of starting the fire - and the idea for the project was born.
Firstly, they held a meeting to discuss their ideas and decided to speak with the local fire service.
The young people felt the project should be aimed at all members of the community, especially the more vulnerable residents, to raise awareness of fire safety in the home.
With the support of the fire service, a survey was carried out and information was given to those people identified as being most vulnerable.
Following the survey over 20 smoke alarms were handed out in Great Easton village. As well as distributing alarms the group were able to demonstrate how they should be checked.
With further support from the fire service & Crimebeat the group expanded their project and produced a video on hoax 999 calls.
They have highlighted the repercussions of making a hoax 999 call. They also have the satisfaction of knowing that by distributing smoke alarms and demonstrating how they should be checked, they may well have saved lives.
2nd Place Overall
Mapplebeck Anglers Association - MAA (North Yorkshire Crimebeat)
Initiated and developed by the young people of Harrogate, the scheme has been outstanding in involving over 80 youths in the two years since it was established.
Many of the young people involved have been previously excluded from schools and engagements with other agencies, including the police.
The project has assisted the youths in recovering a sense of identity within their community and occupied them with a positive and constructive activity.
The scheme has been a vehicle for the police and other agencies to interact with the young people and their families. It has also inspired similar projects in the area, like the summer football league.
In July, the High Sheriff of North Yorkshire, Elise Mackinlay, attended the 'Woodlands Fishing Lakes', near Thirsk. Here she presented the North Yorkshire competition certificates and the winners' cheque.
The High Sheriff also helped with the landing of a 6lb carp and developed a great rapport with the young anglers.
Chairman of the 'MAA', Toby Daniels was delighted with the High Sheriff's visit. He said: "She was a very nice lady, she really listened to us".
3rd Place Overall
Borough Green Drop-In Centre (Kent Crimebeat)
Borough Green, a large village lying on the main Kent to London railway line, provided few facilities and opportunities for young people, who often felt isolated and ignored in a largely commuter orientated community.
Following an increasing problem with vandalism, criminal damage and anti-social behaviour, local residents met with local youths to find a solution to the problem.
This let to the conversion of a derelict flat within the Village Hall by local volunteers, many under the age of 18, in order to provide local youths with their own social facility.
Many young people from the area now attend the new Borough Green Drop-In Centre, affectionately known locally as 'The Joint'.
Two years on, the completed centre provides a focal point for local youths and a means of interacting with the rest of the community. The centre is now looking to employ its own, homegrown, youth outreach worker.
Local councillor and centre leader, Mike Taylor, said: "We've gone from arson attacks on the Village Hall to having a surplus of youth volunteers helping with the Christmas lights. It's because we know each other better now, which always helps."
Highly Commended
Hertfordshire:
Breaking Point Video Project
Lancashire: Lancaster University Volunteer Unit - Distraction
Burglar
Surrey: Skaterham
Cleveland: Gillbrook Technology College - Binge Drinking
Clwyd: Mobile & Alert
Commended
Essex: Maldon (Essex) MIND
BROSIS - Nothing is Black & White
Devon: John Kitto Community College - Dartmoor Project
Cornwall: St. Cleer Primary School - Anti-Vandalism Project
Greater Manchester: Off the Rails
Suffolk: St. James Middle School, Bury St. Edmonds - Citizenship
in Action
Cheshire: Rudheath High School - Trespass
West Sussex: Durrington Middle School - Listening Link
Bedfordshire: EAR-4-U2
Gwynedd: Criccieth in Bloom
Wiltshire: Swindon Youth Offending Team - Inner Sound
Wiltshire: Swindon Ten to Eighteen Project (STEP) - Urban Scene
Northumberland: Success Through Quality - Garden Project
Special Commendation
Bristol: Bristol Youth &
Community Action Team - Youth and Community Action
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NATIONAL CRIMEBEAT AWARDS 2004
Highly Commended
Cheshire: Frodsham Science & Technology School – combined art and
safety to show
pride in upkeep of Frodsham Railway Station
Cornwall: Roseland School – an anti-bullying project
Lancashire: Clitheroe High School – safe school streets
Norfolk: Flegg High School – re-introduced cycling proficiency testing & training
Suffolk: King Edward VI Upper School, Bury St Edmunds – work on anti-social
behaviour
Surrey: Rydens School, Hersham – police community multi-support cadets
West Glamorgan: Dyffryn Comprehensive School – work with Forestry Commission
on Acceptable Behaviour Contracts and Anti-social Behaviour Orders
Commended
| City of Bristol: |
Black Tiger II – The Return of the Crew |
| Clwyd (Colwyn Bay): |
Newsletter |
| Devon: |
Treads Youth Bike Project |
| Essex (Basildon): |
Chestnut Young Voice |
| Gloucestershire: |
Solo Skate Team |
| Greater Manchester (Salford): |
Walkden High Street – ‘The Arndale Project’ |
| Greater Manchester (Urmston): |
The Villa Project |
| Gwynedd: |
End Drug Abuse – Tywyn Health Fair |
| Hertfordshire: |
SOAR Team Football Project |
| North Yorkshire: |
Plain Sailing |
| Nottinghamshire: |
Sport for Kids like Yours |
| South Glamorgan: |
“Don’t be thick when you click” |
| Tyne & Wear (Middlesbrough): |
The Friday Night Group - Choices |
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National Crimebeat Awards 2003
This year’s National Crimebeat Awards were held on 18th July at the Royal National Hotel London. The judging panel consisted of Jane Reay, Deputy Director of Operations, Crimestoppers Trust, Douglas Robertson, Chairman of National Crimebeat, Frank Harding, Coordinator of Cheshire Crimebeat and Andrew Martell, High Sheriff of County of Durham. Their job was made extremely difficult by the impressive presentations by the groups short-listed.
Thanks to the Airways Charitable Trust, National Crimebeat was again able to pay for accommodation for the groups the night before the Awards. This made the event even more special for the young people involved.
National Crimebeat would like to thank Mr Richard Walduck for his generous support in hosting the Awards at The Royal National Hotel, part of the Imperial London Hotel Group.
Prizes of £1,000 for first, £750 for second, £500 for third were this year awarded by Crimestoppers Trust.
Congratulations to the winning teams!
Overall Winners
Suffolk The Harris Crime Prevention Group
The Harris Crime Prevention Group is made up of 11 young people aged between nine and eleven years. They are pupils at the Harris Middle School, Lowestoft.
The school is located in an area of Suffolk that is undergoing re-generation in response to industrial decline and high unemployment.
The aim of this project has been to improve the safety awareness of young people who use Internet chat rooms. The group have prepared two power point presentations; one
for Year 5/6 and another for Year 7/8. They have made presentations to school assemblies and have created mouse mats on which the motifs emphasise the safety message. Using a grant from the High Sheriff of Suffolk’s Award the mats are being mass-produced for circulation to schools throughout Suffolk, through the local Education Authority.
2nd Place Overall
Surrey The Bishop David Brown School, Woking
Pupils from The Bishop David Brown School have developed a simple and effective legal advice support system for students and parents, an initiative which has been endorsed by The Legal Services Commission. It is a unique way of simplifying young people’s access to important information which will help them live and study in a safer environment.
The project centres on the need for young people to know about their rights and responsibilities, and informs them about the help available on a wide range of issues. Young people, for example, wanted to have easy access to information that showed them how to respond to incidents such as the theft of a mobile phone, bullying, smoking, drugs, domestic violence, homelessness and even missing persons.
Based on evidence from their interviews with 150 students, and using the expert advice of Legal Services, the students decided to produce a simple plastic card containing essential information and helpline numbers for all the various types of problems. A website has also been constructed to run from the Legal Services logo which can be accessed from the school’s site.
It is hoped that the project will be a model for other community schools and will be launched nationally. The links will be developed further so that the website can become a “one-stop shop” for accurate quality advice.
3rd Place Equal
Norfolk Heartsease XL Club
The young people involved in the Heartsease XL Club are all pupils at Heartsease High School in Norwich. The catchment area for the school is relatively poor with higher than average crime figures and a high level of deprivation. The background of the youngsters involved in the group is equally far from advantageous.
The group came up with the idea of running an IT course for older people called “Silver Surfers”. They had to raise money, produce leaflets, application forms and brochures, visit Residential Homes in the area to discuss the programme with wardens and residents, organise the logistics of hiring the IT suite and minibus, and plan and teach the lessons.
The programme covered basic and more advanced IT skills, and lasted 5 weeks. It included homework for the “students” and a prize giving at the end.
Before their involvement in the project the members of the XL Club suffered from low self-esteem and struggled with behavioural problems. By working on the project, and giving an excellent showing of it in front of a large audience at the Partners Against Crime Taskforce AGM, they not only grew in self esteem, but also developed a belief in themselves which will allow them to approach their working lives with a positive attitude.
3rd Place Equal
Isle of Wight The Pavilion
East Cowes is a town with areas of great deprivation and few facilities for young people.
A group of young people decided to do something about this and set about transforming a neglected building into a club where they could get together to socialise and play pool. The building had become very run down and was seen to reflect the hardships and problems of young people in the area.
the club is now known as "The Pavilion " and been completely transformed. The young people have re-decorated, taken down walls installed a computer room and snack bar, and a fitness area is being introduced.
The Pavilion Club attracts 40 to 60 users five nights a week. Instances of petty crime and vandalism have |
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Highly Commended
Cleveland
High Tunstall School
“ Safe & Secure”
Lancashire
The Street Cred Group
Cornwall
Falmouth Community College
“ Action Falmouth Peer Pressure” |
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County Durham
The Longfield Junior Crime Prevention Project
Essex
Basildon Youth Council
“ The Heat is On” |
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Commended
Devon
Chulmleigh College Peer Support
Bristol
Knowle West Learning Through Football Group
Derbyshire
The Shirebrook Informal Scout Group
Cheshire
Culcheth High School
1940’s Reminiscence Room for Alzheimer Patients
South Glamorgan
The “Stay Positive” RAP music group
Hertfordshire
The Leeming Cru
“ If we had a bike track” |
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Bedfordshire
The Crescent Summer School Project
Leicestershire & Rutland
Rawlins Community College
The Teenage Pregnancy Project
North Yorkshire
The Buddies Group at Scalby School
Tyne & Wear
The Phoenix Project
Lincolnshire
Martin Youth Bikers |
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Crimebeat National Co-ordinators Meetings
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